Tim Cook claims Apple will open up more developer APIs and opportunities on iOS

Here?s a big one ? Tim Cook has just openly claimed at his AllThingsD interview tonight that Apple will give users more third party choice on upcoming iterations of iOS (iOS 7, anyone?) and will open up some previously closed API and lift some restrictions. Tim Cook?s exact words are as follows:

On the general topic of opening up APIs, I think you?ll see us open up more in the future, but not to the degree that we put the customer at risk of having a bad experience. So there?s always a fine line to walk there, or maybe not so fine.

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We think the customer pays us to make choices on their behalf. I?ve see some of these settings screens, and I don?t think that?s what customers want. Do some want it? Yes. But you?ll see us open up more.

Apple has often been criticized for too tightly controlling what developers can and can?t do on iOS, and this should ease some fears that iOS would fall out of favor with developers in exchange for the open and more powerful Android. The extent of this openness is yet to be known, however, but I?d wager we?ll be hearing more at WWDC.

Source: http://haverzine.com/2013/05/28/tim-cook-claims-apple-will-give-users-more-third-party-choice-on-ios/

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